The Media’s Quinoa Wars – "It’s common for media debates in the Global North to be simplistic. In this case, when the debate almost entirely obscures the real issues at hand, it can be downright pernicious."

Flickr Is Back, Letting Us Go Home Again – "Few things have been more loved and neglected than Flickr. It’s like the internet’s own child of alcoholic parents. It was the web’s first smash-hit photo-sharing site and a proto-social network that launched the same month as Facebook. Then Yahoo bought it and nearly destroyed it."

Damsel, Arise: A Westboro Scion Leaves Her Church – "I definitely regret hurting people,” she says. “That was never our intention. We thought we were doing good. We thought it was the only way to do good. And that’s what I’ve always wanted." interesting read mostly between the lines.

Uruguayan Government Gives Out Bikes in Exchange For Guns – "In a quirky effort to reduce the number of firearms in circulation, the government is again trying something new, offering citizens to turn in their unregistered guns in exchange for something infinitely more amusing — a shiny new bike."

The Pirate Hacks Of Africa – "And they sell games here, the sort of games you would expect in a place where only some of the rooms have a floor. Which is to say they are delirious hacks of old, pirated PlayStation 2 standards, from all over the world, with cover art that is uniformly amazing."

Why Aaron died – "If on January 10, Steve Heymann and Carmen Ortiz at the Massachusetts US Attorney’s office had called Aaron’s lawyer and said they’d realized their mistake and that they were dropping all charges — or even for that matter that they were ready to offer a reasonable plea deal that wouldn’t have marked Aaron as a felon for the rest of his life — would Aaron have killed himself on January 11? The answer is unquestionably no."

We Need to Think Beyond the Aaron in ‘Aaron’s Law’ – "How do we explain to a young person who hacked their school’s website that they might be imprisoned for five years? Yet if they had physically destroyed the web server with a hammer, they would have faced no more than one year."

Naming the Dead – "The Bureau is launching an ambitious new investigation, which will seek to identify as many as possible of those killed in US covert drone strikes in Pakistan, whether civilian or militant."

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